22 О. Amdrup. 



until им July 24th they reached a small i.slaiid, which Gkaah called 

 "Vend oni" (65°14'); here the ice prevented all further advance. 



After one more month, which Graah utilised in making investi- 

 gations of the land south of "Vend om", the ice was quite unchanged. 

 Owing to the advanced time of year Graah now considered it imposs- 

 ible to advance any further that year. An enormous cairn was then 

 raised on Dannebrogs Island (65°18') and possession of the land was 

 taken in the name of His Majesty the King; thereafter, on August 

 21st Graah turned southwards to go into winter quarters. 



For this purpose Graah selected an old Greenland winter-house 

 situated on the south side of a fairly large island at 63°22' N. lat. 

 The place was called Nukarfik (the present Imarsivik) ^. The winter 

 passed comfortably, though the winter-house itself was extremely 

 bad; but when the spring came, all the provisions they had brought 

 with them had been used up with exception of a small amount of 

 bread. Nevertheless, Graah resolved to make one more attempt to 

 reach further north than in the previous year. 



On April 5th 1830 he abandoned Nukarfik. With great exertions 

 Graah succeeded in reaching ca. 64°09' N. lat. on July 12th, but to 

 the north of this he found the drift-ice frozen solid to a huge mass 

 with not a drop of water to be seen anywhere. Graah was shut in 

 here 15 days, during which all his provisions were exhausted. 



Under these circumstances there was nothing else to do but turn 

 back. But it was not until July 28th that Graah succeeded in reaching 

 the open water to the south and here, fortunately, they managed to 

 shoot a seal. In the two previous days they had eaten nothing but 

 ice and snow. Oppressed by constant hunger they now continued 

 the journey southwards. Then Graah became seriously ill. But, 

 fighting against sickness and hunger Graah managed on October 15th 

 to reach to Frederiksdal on the west coast, though suffering greatly. 



This was the end of Graah's journey to East Greenland. He 

 had succeeded in travelling over and charting the coast right up to 

 Dannebrogs Island (65°18'), from which he had viewed and sketched 

 the land some distance further north. 



This journey carried through with such great energy cannot but 

 rouse the greatest admiration, and Graah's name лу111 always be 

 hailed with honour, whenever Greenland and the exploration of Green- 

 land's east coast are mentioned. 



Although Graah's journey had proved, that the way tu explore 

 the east coast of Greenland was by boat inside the ice-belt, yet in 

 the year 1833 an expedition by vessel set out from France-, with the 



1 Meddelelser om Grönland. Bd. IX, p. 197. 



^ Annales maritimes et coloniales 1834. Part 2, Vol. I, pp. 9 — 10 and Part 

 2 Vol. II, p. 918. 



Bulletin de la Société de Geographie 1834. Vol. II, p. 400, with acconi- 

 paiivinfj chart. 



